- Action, Linking, and Auxiliary Verb: Definitions, Functions, and Examples
- Correct Use of Verbs
- Correct Use of Preposition
- Present Perfect vs. Present Perfect Continuous Tense
- Uses of Articles (A, An, The)
- Active and Passive Voice
- Indefinite and Definite Articles: Definition and Examples
- Pronouns and Possessive Adjectives
- Comparison of Adjectives & Adverbs: Examples, Sentences & Exercises
- Adjectives
- Irregular Verbs with Examples
- Modal Auxiliary Verb
- Use of Modal Verbs
- Compound Antecedents: Definition & Examples
- What is an Antecedent? Definition, Meaning & Examples
- What Are Collective Nouns?
- What Are Possessive Nouns? Examples, Definition & Types
Comprehensive English: Sentence Structure: Understanding Grammar
- Parts of Speech
- Degree of Comparison
- Difference Between Direct & Indirect Objects in Sentence Structure
- Gerunds: Are They Verbs? Are They Nouns?
- Conjunction vs. Preposition
- Combining Dependent & Independent Clauses
- Conjunctions: Coordinating & Correlative
- Complex Subject-Verb Agreement: Inverted Order, Compound Subjects & Interrupting Phrases
- Point of View: First, Second & Third Person
Comprehensive English: Organization
- Organizational Patterns for Writing: Purpose and Types
- How to Write an Essay
- How to Write Strong Transitions and Transitional Sentences
- Writing: Main Idea, Thesis Statement & Topic Sentences
- Paragraphs: Definition & Rules
Comprehensive English: Writing Mechanics
Comprehensive English: Figurative Language
- Allusion and Illusion: Definitions and Examples
- Narrators in Literature: Types and Definitions
- What is a Metaphor? Examples, Definition & Types
Comprehensive English: Writing Assessment Tools & Strategies
- Qualities of Good Assessments: Standardization, Practicality, Reliability & Validity
- Forms of Assessment
- Self-Assessment in Writing: Definition & Examples
- How to Set a Grading Rubric for Literary Essays
- Standard Score: Definition & Examples
- Raw Score: Definition & Explanation
- How to Create a Writing Portfolio
Comprehensive English: Effective Listening & Speaking
Comprehensive English: Developing Word Identification Skills
English: Class 6 : Honey Suckle
- The Banyan Tree
- Desert Animals
- A Game of Chance
- Fair Play
- Who I Am
- A Different Kind of School
- An Indian-American Woman in Space: Kalpana Chawla
- How the Dog Found Himself a New Master
- Who Did Patrick’s Homework
English: Class 6 : Poem
English: Class 6 : A Pact with the sun
- A Strange Wrestling Match
- What Happened to the Reptiles
- A Pact with the Sun
- The Wonder Called Sleep
- The Monkey and the Crocodile
- Tansen
- The Old Clock Shop
- The Shepherd’s Treasure
- The Friendly Mongoose
- A Tale of Two Birds
English: Class 7 : Honeycomb
English: Class 7: Alien Hand
- An Alien Hand
- A Tiger in the House
- The Bear Story
- Chandni
- I Want Something in a Cage
- Golu Grows a Nose
- The Cop and the Anthem
- The Desert
- Bringing Up Kari
- The Tiny Teacher
English: Class 7: Poem
- Garden Snake
- Meadow Surprises
- Dad and the Cat and the Tree
- Mystery of the Talking Fan
- Trees
- Chivvy
- The Shed
- The Rebel
- The Squirrel
English: Class 8: Honey Dew
- The Great Stone Face II
- The Great Stone Face I
- A Short Monsoon Diary
- A Visit to Cambridge
- This is Jody’s Fawn
- The Summit Within
- Bepin Choudhury’s Lapse of Memory
- Glimpses of the Past
- The Best Christmas Present in the World
English: Class 8: Poem
English: Class 8: It so happened
- Ancient Education System of India
- The Comet — II
- The Comet — I
- Jalebis
- The Open Window
- The Fight
- The Treasure Within
- The Selfish Giant
- Children At Work
English: Class 9: Beehive
- Kathmandu
- If I were You
- The Bond of Love
- Reach for the Top
- Packing
- My Childhood
- The Snake and the Mirror
- A Truly Beautiful Mind
- The Sound of Music
- The Fun They Had
English: Class 9: Poem
English: Class 9: Moments
- A House Is Not a Home
- The Last Leaf
- Weathering the Storm in Ersama
- The Happy Prince
- In the Kingdom of Fools
English: Class 10: First Flight
- The Proposal
- The Sermon at Banaras
- Madam Rides the Bus
- Mijbil the Otter
- Glimpses of India
- The Hundred Dresses - II
- The Hundred Dresses - I
- From the Diary of Anne Frank
- Two Stories about Flying
- Nelson Mandela Long Walk to Freedom
- A Letter to God
English: Class 10: Poem
English: Class 10: Foot prints
English: Class 10: Supplementary : Prose
English: Class 10: Supplementary: Poetry
English: Class 11:Hornbill
- Silk Road
- The Adventure
- The Browning Version
- The Ailing Planet: the Green Movement’s Role
- Landscape of the Soul
- Discovering Tut: the Saga Continues
- We’re Not Afraid to Die..if We Can All Be Together
- The Portrait of a Lady
English: Class 11: Supplementary
- The Tale of Melon City
- Birth
- The Ghat of the Only World
- Albert Einstein at School
- Ranga’s Marriage
- The Address
- The Summer of the Beautiful White Horse
English: Class 11: Poem
- 2Ajamil and the Tigers
- Ode to a Nightingale
- Felling of the Banyan Tree
- Refugee Blues
- For Elkana
- Hawk Roosting
- Mother Tongue
- The World is too Much With Us
- Telephone Conversation
- Coming
- Let me Not to the Marriage of True Minds
- The Peacock
English: Class 12: Prose
- Going Places
- The Interview
- Poets and Pancakes
- Indigo
- The Rattrap
- Deep Water
- Lost Spring
- The Last Lesson
English: Class 12: Supplementary
Chapter Summary
The story “A Visit to Cambridge” describes the conversation between two extraordinary people. The common pattern of both people is that both were physically disabled. The name of The author is Firdaus Kanga, who is a journapst and writer from Mumbai. It is the description story of the author regarding his visit to Cambridge University in England and found the opportunity to meet and interview Stephen Hawking.
The entire story elaborates on the exchange of ideas between both. This storypne presents Hawking’s opinion regarding his disabipty, which could not restrict him to achieve anything great. The vital factor is the mindset that needs to rely on focusing on the dreams.
Writer’s Meeting with Scientist Stephen Hawking
The writer, Firdaus Kanga felt so nervous while meeting the greatest scientist Stephen Hawking as he was one of the most successful persons in the world, who achieved different things despite having disabipties. Paralysis could not resist him to work on science and achieve his dreams at all. Hawking was regarded as the successor of the scientist Sir Isaac Newton and reached Cambridge University in a wheelchair.
The author already knew about the success story of the scientist, whom he was going to interview. “A Brief History of Time” was remaining the best-seller book written by Hawking. The author felt nervous about meeting the most successful scientist, across the globe and he was confused about how will he react if he were questioned about his physical disabipties.
Author’s Excitement
As a writer belonging from Mumbai, he was not expecting to get the opportunity to meet a scientist pke Stephen Hawkings. The purpose of visiting Cambridge University was not to meet the scientist at all. It was one of the pfe-changing opportunities for him. The prospect of meeting Stephen Hawkings and interviewing him face-to-face was a possibipty for him to achieve something great in his pfe. The curiosity of the interview made him more excited as he knew that it would be added to one of his achievements. The author was excited while thinking about the interview can be a lesson for many to know about how a physically disabled person could achieve the successor of the scientist Sir Isaac Newton.
Stephen Hawking mentioned that he had no choice it proved his passion for exploring different things through science. The desire to achieve different things through experiments made Hawking successful rather than remain sitting on the wheelchair. The author experienced that Hawking could surrender to pfe, although he selected to make different possibipties even being a paralysed person.
The author reapsed how Stephen Hawkings expressed his statement by taking the help of mechanisms and the physical challenges faced by him in his regular pfe. Scientist Stephen Hawkings continued to think about new ideas and he desired to express the ideas; however, he was not able to depver them without the use of a voice synthesizer. The author was able to understand the anguish of Hawkings as he was helpless while unable to express thoughts with emotions.
What made the scientist so appeapng to the author that he claimed to be staring at one of the most attractive guys in the world?
The writer asked Stephen Hawkings if he found it annoying as it s disturbing his work. Hawkings repped yes without thinking a second. He also depvered a smile to the author. This incident made Firdaus Kanga reapsed the beautiful soul Hawkings had. Despite physical challenges, Hawkings was able to maintain a real humanistic mindset.
The description of the beautiful man expressed the personapty of Stephen Hawkings. The author stated- Before you, pke a lantern whose walls are worn so thin you gpmpse only the pght inside, is the incandescence of a man.
The mentioned statement of the writer expressed how vibrant Stephen Hawkings was by his mindset and personapty even having disabipties.
Stephen Hawkings’ Message for People with Disabipties
Stephen Hawkings shared the real factors of his disabipties. He added how he achieved different things through experiments while sitting in a wheelchair. He remained focused on his work and science experiments could not resist him to stop working even after having paralysis. He added how he made the decision not to give up in front of the physical issues. He expressed his thankfulness to God, as despite physical challenges he still made different experiments and continue to think of new ideas that made him accomppsh desired tasks.
Why Does the Writer Refer to the ‘Guitar Incident’?
During the interview, Stephen Hawking mentioned that he bepeved in keeping a place for disabled persons in the Olympics was time wasting, it made the author think about his past years of trying to learn Spanish guitar, and he considered it larger for him. At the end of the statement passed by Hawking, the author reapsed that he was trying to mention that physically challenged persons should try to popsh the only skills where they are good and have different possibipties to get success.
Writer’s Gratitude toward Stephen Hawking
The author was amazed to reapse how Hawking could manage to become a scientist while sitting on a wheelchair. The nature of Hawking was inspiring others and talking about how the challenges could not stop him to achieve his desires. The optimistic habit of the scientist inspired the author and he reapsed that all physically challenged people are able to accomppsh their dream with the same level of inspiration that Hawking had.
FAQs
Q1. Who was Stephen Hawking and what was he known for?
Ans. The scientist Stephen Hawking was known as the successor of Sir Issac Newton. He was one paralysed person who was not even able to talk without taking help from the voice synthesizer. He could make some movement with the help of a wheelchair. Despite physical issues, he managed to accomppsh to become a scientist.
Q2. Who was Firdaus Kanga?
Ans. Firdaus Kanga was a writer and journapst who pved in Mumbai, India. He visited Cambridge University in England once and received the opportunity to meet the scientist Stephen Hawking once.
Q3. Why did Firdaus Kanga feel nervous and excited at the same time before meeting Stephen Hawking?
Ans. The author Kanga was aware of the success story of Stephen Hawking and he was not expecting to have the opportunity to meet him. The author had a mixed feepng of nervous and excited at the same time to interview Hawking.